It's two and a half months on from Lord Justice Leveson publishing his report and we can see precious little progress in implementing it.

Our elected politicians face a critical choice.

They can either do what Leveson recommends - wholeheartedly and properly - or they can turn their backs on the issue, and turn their backs on us, the victims of press abuse.

What Lord Leveson proposed is not tough on the press and it's not a threat to free speech.

For me personally, he did not go far enough. The press will still regulate themselves, something very few industries are allowed to do, and which many people felt they had lost the right to do.

But Leveson said that it was essential that the body carrying out the checks is set up in statute to ensure that from then on it, and the press, will be completely free of political influence.

Anything less than Leveson's full recommendations will never satisfy the victims of press abuse.

Image:Kate and Gerry McCann suffered "the worst the press could throw at us"

This Royal Charter plan falls far short of Leveson and it is shocking that ministers are admitting that they made a host of concessions to newspaper editors and proprietors. The Conservative Party can't rewrite Leveson now. They must think again.

And, judging by the opinion polls, the public feels the same way.

Kate and I had the misfortune to suffer the worst that the press could throw at us. What happened to us could happen to any other family. That is why Kate and I put ourselves through the ordeal of giving evidence to Leveson and why I am speaking out again today.

Nobody should have to endure what we went through.

It is up to our Prime Minister and our other politicians to prevent that. The Prime Minister said "we will have to be guided by what the inquiry finds".

Now he needs to put those findings, Leveson’s recommendations, into law through parliament, without meddling and back-door deals. And without checking whether the press is happy about it.

Leveson without the law is no change. It’s the Press Complaints Commission all over again. It’s the world we know, of newspapers abusing innocent families with impunity.